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45. 12 years ago I taught some college kids a lit course.

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 07:32 PM

Sep 2020

I found out the following "facts":

Hitler killed only 6 million Jews; only Jews died in the camps.

Stalin might have killed a few hundred thousand political prisoners. Maybe. Probably less. Some, often gay or with gay friends or family, knew that gays had also been targeted.

Like the US Constitution, the USSR constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, of the press, of speech, and in addition health care--so it must have been a better country, and probably better off.

The war in US history with the most dead US soldiers was clearly Vietnam.

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Nearly Two-Thirds of US Young Adults Unaware 6m Jews Killed in the Holocaust [View all] appalachiablue Sep 2020 OP

The dangers and horrors of Fascism have become too distant in our history. Thomas Hurt Sep 2020 #1

Just in time for fascism to make it's comeback. jorgevlorgan Sep 2020 #42

Hard & scary to believe this. We all studied this in school, a lot, and i went to school in NE FL. lark Sep 2020 #2

Once they buried civics and stopped teaching US History bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #3

The "how many killed" question had 6 possible answers plus 'not sure' muriel_volestrangler Sep 2020 #4

Thanks for the info. appalachiablue Sep 2020 #6

the price we pay for home schooling , private schooling and the desired outcome of creating beachbumbob Sep 2020 #5

THIS is how republicans stay in control. not_the_one Sep 2020 #25

I disagree, GOP stays in control becasue their people vote in a much higher percentage beachbumbob Sep 2020 #34

Oh bullshit. EllieBC Sep 2020 #41

This is surprising how? lonely bird Sep 2020 #7

I find it surprising PatSeg Sep 2020 #12

Thank you! Movies, TV, books. betsuni Sep 2020 #27

One should be able to trip over information PatSeg Sep 2020 #40

I Ingersollman Sep 2020 #8

History is one of those subjects that is fraught with danger melm00se Sep 2020 #9

Very disturbing. The dumbing down of America. Wasn't that way when I attended public school. At all. Evolve Dammit Sep 2020 #10

Me either, but having dealt with young people for the past 30 years I can tell you redstatebluegirl Sep 2020 #11

12 years ago I taught some college kids a lit course. Igel Sep 2020 #45

....... Hotler Sep 2020 #13

Schindler's List should be required viewing in COLGATE4 Sep 2020 #14

No, no frazzled Sep 2020 #16

when I was in junior high it was required viewing Javaman Sep 2020 #15

It is even more likely qwlauren35 Sep 2020 #17

That's "to the Americas." Igel Sep 2020 #46

We had to bring a signed form back to the school CountAllVotes Sep 2020 #18

Only 9 states require Holocaust instruction by law. Only 5 of the 9 include "shall" in their law. ancianita Sep 2020 #19

psst - only 34% of Americans have a college degree melm00se Sep 2020 #20

Oh, those? From VOA news? okay. My figures are from the US Census. ancianita Sep 2020 #21

OK, primary sources it is melm00se Sep 2020 #31

I'm forced to download your source to look it over. But notice that it's a report for 2019. ancianita Sep 2020 #37

A few comments then feel free to block me melm00se Sep 2020 #44

I hear you. ancianita Sep 2020 #47

OOPS. I just now reread my post. MY BAD. I meant the opposite and will edit it to show what I ancianita Sep 2020 #48

As you notice, 95% of reports only include percentages. Percentages of what populations, right? ancianita Sep 2020 #23

I don't think there's ever been a time when 80% of Americans had four-year degrees. llmart Sep 2020 #28

I hear you. ancianita Sep 2020 #30

Shameful. sinkingfeeling Sep 2020 #22

I no longer assume that my young coworkers... Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2020 #24

Social Media is full of Antisemitic Trash JI7 Sep 2020 #26

Witness: Behind the Aegis Sep 2020 #33

I'm a baby boomer. We all grew up with it in school history classes. And in my day we demigoddess Sep 2020 #29

This isn't really all that surprising to me. Behind the Aegis Sep 2020 #32

This action in No. Calif. is horrible, should be appalachiablue Sep 2020 #35

I posted it in GD. Behind the Aegis Sep 2020 #36

Great, glad you posted. Some of the reports I posted appalachiablue Sep 2020 #38

Sure it's bad news. But The Guardian does its ally no service in revealing its study to America ancianita Sep 2020 #39

Commonly cited reasons: Fewer schools now are required appalachiablue Sep 2020 #49

Thanks. The outlook on education improvement isn't good. ancianita Sep 2020 #52

I don't remember how WWII was taught in the 80s. Politicub Sep 2020 #43

After reading the result in detail Steelrolled Sep 2020 #50

"Schindler's List" CTyankee Sep 2020 #51